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A huge portion of iOS/macOS is open source (nearly as much as Android) and anyone can verify what it's doing. Darwin is the kernel and underlying libraries. It'
by jaegerpicker 8y ago
A huge portion of iOS/macOS is open source (nearly as much as Android) and anyone can verify what it's doing. Darwin is the kernel and underlying libraries. It's heavily based on FreeBSD and is available to download and read.
- decebalus1 8y agoThat means absolutely NOTHING in this context. I can base my product on some Linux distro and add just about the right tracking libraries. It is closed source proprietary software, period. Also, this [1]. They definitely do have tracking. Please point me to the source code for this. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/
- floatboth 8y ago> nearly as much as Android nah. AOSP is actually a full OS. All the GUI stuff and whatnot is open source. Apple only publishes the kernel sometimes. Not nearly as much. > heavily based on FreeBSD Not that heavily. There is a mix of Mach and various BSDs in there, but also a lot, a looooot of custom Apple weirdness on top.